The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Study Guide

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

Chapter 2
• Book opens shortly after midnight 7 minutes to be exact.
• Christopher John Francis Boone Found Wellington.
• Wellington is the neighbour’s dog (Mrs Shears).
• Wellington was dead with a pitch fork through him.
Chapter 3
• Christopher struggles to understand the emotions of others.
• Christopher but he remembers each country and its capital and every prime number up to 7,057.
• He remembers the first time he met Siobhan, 8 years earlier she had drawn the face for different emotions but Christopher could only identify the sad face which is how he felt about Wellington and the happy face which is how he felt walking around the neighbourhood at 3 or 4am.
Chapter 5
• Christopher removed

• They communicate through facial expressions and metaphors.
• He doesn’t like them because there not speaking about what they say.
Chapter 31
• His father arrives at the station.
• Christopher and his father greet strangely by holding their hands and spreading their fingers allowing them to touch.
• It’s because Christopher doesn’t like being hugged.
• Christopher is let out with astern waring from the police and investigators.

Chapter 37
• He explains that in order to form a lie he’d have to pick an event to replace a real one.
• But he cannot think of one.
• So he does not tell lies so everything in this book is true.
Chapter 41
• On the way home he tries to apologise for making his father drive to the station.
• He goes to his room when he gets home but at 2:07 am he goes to the kitchen to get a drink.
• He sees his father alone in the living room with tears in his eyes.
• He asks if it’s because Wellington died, his father’s pauses for a while before replying yes.
Chapter 43
• Christopher remembered 2 years ago when his mother died.
• His father was in and out of the house for hours.
• He came home and told him his mother was in hospital with a heart

Chapter 211
• Christopher is still being chased by police
• He is in London.
• He is on the subway heading to Willesden junction or Willesden Green.
• He wishes he were home but he cannot go there because his father murdered Wellington.
Chapter 223
• Christopher is describing the sign for a Malaysian holiday.
• He is confused as to why you’d go on a holiday to see new things when you can do that here.
• He also talks about playing different notes from having a certain amount of water in the glass.
Chapter 227
• Christopher makes it to his mother’s after buying a map and he has to wait till 11:32pm.
• Christopher talks to his mother about why he never wrote back.
• He goes to sleep on the air mattress in the spare room.
• He hears his father yelling and screaming but he wants to stay with his mother and refuses to go with him.
Chapter 229
• He is having a dream about a virus that kills you if you look at someone who has it
• He can go anywhere because no one is looking at him.
• And he goes home to his dads accept his dad isn’t there.
Chapter 233
• Christopher ends at home again but this time with his mum.
• But that doesn’t last long his mother is forced to move